Urban Colloquy on Regime Politics podcasts now available!

Two podcasts have been recorded to showcase and elaborate on the Urban Colloquy published in UAR in January 2015. The podcasts feature Dr. Peter Burns, Dr. Clarence N. Stone, Dr. Michael Jones-Correa, Diane Wong, Dr. Joel Rast. and Dr. Katherine B. Hankins.

The podcasts may be listened to here.

Urban Colloquy on Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics, Part I

This is the first of a two-part series moderated by Peter Burns, Editor of Urban Affairs Review, on the Urban Colloquy of Vol. 51, Issue 1 (January 2015): "Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics." Burns invites Clarence N. Stone to reflect on his recent article, “Reflections on Regime Politics: From Governing Coalition to Urban Political Order.” Michael Jones-Correa and Diane Wong contribute to the discussion with their article titled “Whose Politics? Reflections on Clarence Stone’s Regime Politics.”  

Urban Colloquy on Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics, Part II

This is Part II of the Urban Affairs Review Urban Colloquy: "Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics" (Vol. 51, Issue 1, January 2015). Peter Burns, Editor of UAR, invites Joel Rast, author of “Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change,” and Katherine B. Hankins, author of “Regime Politics in Geography,” to the discussion.

From our January 2015 issue: Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change

1. Joel Rast1

1. ¹University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

1. Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Bolton Hall 626, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA. Email: jrast@uwm.edu

Abstract

The 25th anniversary of the publication of Clarence Stone’s Regime Politics presents an opportunity to consider ways of moving forward theoretically in a world that has begun to look much different from postwar Atlanta. In recent years, Stone has turned his attention from stability to change in urban governing arrangements, proposing American political development (APD) as a promising theoretical approach. While broadly in agreement with Stone about the advantages of APD for the study of urban political change, I identify some potential problems with his efforts to combine APD and regime analysis. In particular, I suggest that Stone more fully embrace APD’s emphasis on friction and disorder as a driver of change in governing arrangements and that the role of institutions, in addition to informal arrangements, be considered more directly in arguments about how change occurs.

• American political development
 
• intercurrence
 
• periodization
• • http://uar.sagepub.com/content/51/1/138.abstract